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Holiday rants inside
So we were at FIL's house yesterday and his wife's son and DIL gt there with their 2 little ones. The mom comes in with the daughter and says to me, "Well if you don't want him to get sick, keep him away from her".
Kids get sick, I realize this. And in some situations it is inevitable and unavoidable, like around here bc we live so close to BIL and their kiddos it's assumed pretty much that we will all be sick at some point even if we keep the kids away from each other.
What I can't stand is people who bring their visibly ill children to places where there will be other small children and they just don't give a fuuuuuck. This poor little girl was A) miserable and 
running around all day with snot pouring out of her nose. It's not like you can tell a 2 1/2 year old "Hey don't go play with that other 2 1/2 year old over there", because it just doesn't work that way.
Holidays are holidays, but if your kid is that sick, one of you stays home with them. Seriously, sickness completely runs our entire household into the ground and I'm already too tired to be dealing with that *** if I don't have to.
Rant over.
Re: Holiday rants inside
I do not think I will ever understand parents who lack common sense like that. Hope the kiddo doesn't get sick!
I've been fighting a cold this week which made traveling rough. The majority of my family drove 10 hours (parents/bro from the north, us from south) to my sister's house. My sister is a shitty host and it bugs me we all go out of our way to visit her and she doesn't clean her house and doesn't plan anything in terms of feeding us or having anything to do.
Speaking of a parent who lacks common sense, for some reason my sister decided it was a good idea to let her kid skip her nap 2 days in a row while we were there, even though the kid would've been pretty willing to go and almost put herself to bed one of the days. So then right before 'night night time' we had to watch my niece throw huge fits because obviously she was way too tired.
If your kid normally naps everyday and we're just sitting in your house doing nothing anyway, let your damn kid take a nap so we don't have to deal with the meltdowns later.
This is a thread for rants, right?
So my family does secret Santa, we use Elfster to do the picks etc.. Well this year my sister set it up, and made the picks for the Monday before Thanksgiving. Which is early, but whatever. She included my brother's girlfriend in inviting, but she never accepted the invite before last Monday, so it drew the names without her. My sister decided to just sign her up, and redraw the names.
That caused an issue, b/c some people bought the gifts right away (crazy right?) and now have a completely different person. And then on Thanksgiving we found out my brother and his girlfriend are no longer together. So yeah, she should of asked before signing her up. Top it off, H has her. So we have to buy her the gift.
I guess that my bro's gf is going to Christmas, but she usually says she is going to something and doesn't show up. It's going to be awkward. I do bet she doesn't go, forgets to give my brother the gift, and someone is out a gift.
Ohh nice. Gotta love sick kids, and then trying to explain that to your little one.
We do elfster with our family now (everyone loves it!) You guys introducted it to me last year. I would definitely not be happy with a redraw! And if you aren't going to be at Christmas, they aren't in it! Hopefully everything works out!
For our elfster, I am the one that sets up the account. I make sure to mark that family members can't draw people in their immediate family. I was so upset when I saw my draw, it's my cousins husband - who is the draw everyone dreads, haha. And last year people were giving me a hard time for who I got last year, claiming I cheated (which I didn't!). So - obviously this proves the whole cheating theory wrong! I would have taken anyone but him!
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I need to get my family started with elfster. I tried last year but I couldn't get anyone to agree without hounding them to give a yes or no answer. Then it was to late to make sure everyone singed up. I didn't even bother this year.
I never understood and have always been irked by really sick kids at family gatherings, really sick people/ kids at school/ university and really sick people at work. My mother always kept me home so 1) I would get better faster and 2) not get others ill. I understand sometimes it can't be helped. There may be a major exam that day. You have to work or you won't get paid. I've been fever sick at a family holiday reunion at Walt Disney World. I didn't get sick( no fever or symptoms) until after the first day of being there. My parents took me to a doctor there, called my doctor back home, got me on meds and wouldn't let me out of my room until my fever was gone and feeling better. Thankfully I hadn't had contact with any family. No one was sick but me.
My rant re: sickness is co-workers who are so sick and still come in. "I'm too busy to stay at home" is a BS excuse. No one is so busy they can't miss a day or two of work. And half of the people here half a blackberry anyway, so they are reachable if absolutely necessary. But instead, they come in to the office, infect everyone else and then those people come in and it's a regular cycle.
Redrawing is ridiculous, especially without notice, but now that your brother isn't dating this girl, can you all agree to redraw again? Seems unfair that someone has to buy her a gift and someone is then out of a gift if she's no longer in the picture.